Woodhouse v. Orangetown Pediatrics, P. C.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered June 6, 1994, which denied defendants-appellants’ motion to sever the causes of action against them and to change the venue thereof to Rockland County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Although the causes of action against defendants-appellants on the one hand, and the remaining defendants on the other, allege separate instances of malpractice that resulted in unrelated physical injuries, it was a proper exercise of discretion to *363deny a severance where appellants’ malpractice allegedly resulted in cumulative…
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